The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-02-06
BREAKFAST-TABLE CHAT.

NINA VANzANDr is a chestnut BELLE Let US
have new sensation.
BILL. NYE thinks that the North Carolinians
should work their butter more and their COWS
less.
WHY do you still pray to Jossl" a gentleman
asked an Arizona Chinaman who had just been
converted to Christianity. ''Chinaman make
velly sure.' was the reply. 'Me catchee joss,
me catchee Mclean god"
A CALIFORNIA paper lays down this rule for
the guidance Of its readers who may be thinking
of specializing in mining stocks: Buy 'em when
they are low and sell when they are high, and
watch your broker with q shotgun
WHEN George KEENAN, recently visited Count
Tolstoi he met the novelist as he was returning
from spreading manure on a poor widows field,
and during the evening that he spent at his
house the Count was busy making shoes.
WIN. D. HOMELESS wife says that her hus.
band writes as man saws wood. The trouble
with Mr. Howells is that he doesn't keep his pen
creased, as the wood sawyer treats his saw to ba-
con, and here is more or less screechng as it
were.
COLUMBUS (Ga) Enquirer ats been given
out that my daughter was married. said gen
tleman near Griffin, recently, ssbut want;co
state that there amt no truth in it. Such talk
as that will keep the young away She
amt married at all but Is jest willin as ever"
GEORGE ALFRED TowsEND says that General
Grant coold stand very little liquor. If he took
single glass of wine became a cloud upon his
otherwise clear faculties. Grant was one OF
the few men in whom nature had worked so
healthfully that his system could never contain
liquor without mutiny."
THE Duke of Leinster is about to sell the bulk
of his Irish estate to his tenants, including the
Manor Of Maynooth, which mas been in his fam
:1~- y, Il.
the splendid old castle there. now in ruins, that
pet monkey rescued the heir Of the Fitzgeralcs
on the occasion of fire.
THE Crematorial Association, Of Philadelphia.
! is preparing to build the largest and costliest
crematory chapel in tho world 1t will have
front of 60 feet depth of los feet: the distance
will be 80 feet to the top of the dome. The ma
terial will be granite pressed red brick and
terra Gotta, and the cost will be $40, 900.
IT is now just about a quarter of century
since Bismarck uttered the most famous Of all
| his historic phrases. It was in Budget debate.
| in which he was beaten by an adverse VOTE cit
| is not" he said, "by speecbifying aud the votes
Of majorities that the great questions Of the age
are to be settled; but by blood and IRON"
JOHN RODGERS, Minnie Palmsr'a business d.
rector recently sent proposals for her manage
/ ment to six different managers in New York
offering each one different set of terms To
| Mr.. Rodgerss great surprise every one of them
accepted his offer, and there promises to be some
| complications. legal and otherwise, before the
| matter is settled
/ FoR several months the Rev. Henry New
| ton, of Union Point, Conn, suffered slight
| pains in his left arm, and thought it was rheu-
matism. The other day. while he was dressing,
| the arm broke in two places above the elbow
| Examination showed that the bone had been
| eaten by cancer. The limb was amputated, and
| Dir. Newton is in fair way to get we'll
| "HERE is a sentence" says Labouchere in his
Truth, (which 1 think is too severe. One Henry
Baker is a half witted waf at Portsmouth
| When given glass of baer he loses even the re-
| naming half of his wits In this condition be
took from butchers stall piece of meat value
one shilling. For this offense tho Recorder oil
Portsmouth has sentenced him to seven years
penal servtude. What does Lord Coleridge say
! to this?"
THERE is an old gentleman living in Stock
holm who was the tenor in the operate com
pany Jenny Lind first belonged to, away back
in 1887, and who was once engaged to be married
to her. He has told correspondent some curl
Gus things OF her later life. She is plain and
| countenance. She is very pious. and most oil
her talk lie devoted to bemoaning the days when
she was sinful enough to appear on the stage.
She is intoerant toward young singers, sneerine
at their voices and their vocation alike. and re-
Dukes anyone who venturcs to address her by
tho name Of Jenny Lind. or even refer to the